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Music Theory Trivia Quiz
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Listen to the mirlitons
Musical instruments, the tools of musical expression, have been around more or less as long as human culture. One venerable and widespread instrument type is the mirliton, although it is usually called by another name. Which?
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Good old Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), was just the stand-out member of an exceptionally musical family. All four listed here were famed composers. Three are J.S. Bach’s own sons. The fourth was a grandson. Which?
B) Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach
C) Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
D) Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach
The grandest staff
How many lines would be required — rather then usual 5 — if a single musical staff were to cover the entire range of human hearing (roughly 20 through 20,000 vibrations per second)?
Dying away
Italian has given us many words for indicating expression in music, such as our usual terms for “soft” and “loud”, piano and forte. Three of the words below are among the many that mean “dying away”. Which one is the exception?
The concertmaster’s instrument
In a symphony orchestra one musician, second in rank to the conductor, is known as the concertmaster (or, in England, the leader). The rank always belongs to the orchestra’s principal player of a particular instrument. Which?
An instrument for Erik
The French composer Erik Satie (1866-1925) is well-known for the humorous and eccentric style of many of his compositions, which are chiefly for which instrument?
What is a microtone?
Which of the following definitions most accurately captures the meaning of the word microtone?
B) A short musical work stating a single melodic idea
C) A sound too brief or too quiet to register fully with an audience
D) A special microphone for recording tones
What did Guido do?
Guido d’Arezzo was an 11th-century Benedictine monk who is celebrated for an important contribution to the history of music. What did he do?
B) Revolutionized musical notation
C) Was the first to combine voice and instruments in the same work
D) Wrote the melody that became the song Greensleeves
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Ice-cream is not the answer
To a classical musician, who or what is “The Neapolitan”?
B) A concert hall in Vienna where Mozart’s greatest works were introduced
C) A distinctive-sounding chord, the “Neapolitan sixth”
D) An opera of Gioachino Rossini, his last, tragically incomplete
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